Roker - Sunderland

Long curving Victorian breakwater at Sunderland with a red-and-white lighthouse and a hidden tunnel beneath.

0.9 km SE

Opened near Sunderland in 1871 as the world's first lighthouse purpose-built to use alternating electric current, its red-and-white bands now cared for by the National Trust.

5 km N

Great sea-stack of magnesian limestone standing off Marsden Bay, loud with nesting kittiwakes and cormorants.

5.9 km N

Two and a half miles of clifftop grassland and limestone stacks along the coast from South Shields to Souter.

6 km N

Hundred acres of wetland, wood and meadow on the Wear, home to wild birds, flamingos and otters.

8.2 km W

Greek-temple folly on a prominent hill.

8.7 km SW